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Software components and controls are pre-built software libraries that you can use in your application to add new functionality. By adding functionality written by experts, you are not only saving time and effort but also adding high quality features to your application - fast.

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Visual Studio 2017 (Controls & Components, Tools & Add-ins)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (MS Visual Studio 2017) allows Visual Studio 2017 programmers to create Windows applications and offers unparalleled productivity for any dev, any app and any platform. You can use Visual Studio 2017 to develop solutions that integrate with the Cloud, Azure and .NET Core applications. Developers can also create quality mobile apps for Android and iOS using Xamarin’s advanced debugging and profiling tools. Visual Studio 2017 developers can extend the standard functionality available inside the Visual Studio 2017 IDE with a variety of Visual Studio 2017 add-ins and Visual Studio 2017 tools. The extensibility of Visual Studio software is one of the main reasons it has proved to be so popular with developers, as Visual Studio 2017 software engineers can find Visual Studio 2017 downloads from other companies or other developers to act as a Visual Studio 2017 extension to their Visual Studio 2017 IDE.

The versatility of Visual Studio 2017 also extends to various forms of Visual Studio 2017 software components. Visual Studio 2017 controls can be used to create feature rich Visual Studio 2017 user interfaces on forms and Web pages for Visual Studio 2017 apps. These Visual Studio 2017 UI controls are augmented by non-visual Visual Studio 2017 components or Visual Studio 2017 libraries that can help a developer add many hidden features in Visual Studio 2017 applications running in the background. These non-visual components are commonly available as a Visual C++ library, Visual C++ Class library, Visual Basic library, Visual Basic Class library or as a Visual Basic custom control or ActiveX/OCX component.

An example of a visual Visual Studio control is the DevExpress WPF DataGrid Control, a .NET UI control that is an Outlook inspired editing and data shaping component allowing your end-users to easily manage information and display it on-screen in your project. A non-visual .NET component example is a Visual Studio 2017 compatible product that allows you to create and output files in different formats, such as: PDF, XPS, PostScript, RTF, HTML, XML to help solve file conversion and document storage needs.

Another example of a visual Visual Studio 2017 control is BCGControlBar Professional, a Visual C++ Class Library that allows you to create an MS Office Ribbon style or look and feel to your latest Visual C++ project. A non-visual Visual C++ Class Library component example is a Visual C++ compatible product call IP*Works! C++ Edition that allows you to send emails via SMTP and POP or to transfer files reliably using HTTP or FTP Internet protocols from within your Visual C++ program.

The Visual Studio 2017 software products listed in this Visual Studio 2017 product gallery will allow you to save a lot of time and effort in creating your new Visual Studio 2017 app. Whether you are looking for a Visual Studio 2017 plug-in or Visual Studio 2017 utility, or you are looking for a Visual Studio 2017 control or a Visual Studio 2017 component, you will be able to find a wide variety of Visual Studio 2017 tools to help you finish your project faster.

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ActiveX Components (ActiveX Controls, COM Objects & OLE Objects)

Microsoft first introduced the term ActiveX in 1996 when they launched a downloadable user interface control or software component that could be used by Internet Explorer to give more interactive or active content on a Web page to the reader. ActiveX controls were a re-branded subset of OLE custom controls (OCX) or OLE controls (OCXes) that were streamlined for downloading over the Internet and that could be digitally signed for security and authentication reasons. These ActiveX downloads were also tagged or marked as being safe for scripting and safe for initialization, to help give users confidence in using them in ActiveX Internet apps, as they were less likely to start making unauthorized actions on their systems. ActiveX controls also supported threading models, such as Apartment Model Threading, to try and improve performance in a multi-user or multi-process environment.

OLE controls (OCX's) or Object Linking and Embedding controls were themselves the successor to VBX controls first introduced by Microsoft to help programmers extend the functionality and features of their Visual Basic program by buying and reusing a VBX control built by another programmer or company, with expertise in a specific area. VBXes were limited to 16 bit usage for example on Windows 3.x, OCXes were available for both 16 bit or 32 bit architectures and began being widely used as people adopted Windows 95, although most people tended to use VBXes on 16-bit systems and OCX controls or OLE components on 32-bit systems for performance reasons. OLE itself was based on earlier work by Microsoft in their Office products to allow data to be exchanged and reused as objects inside other documents or files, such as embedding an Excel spreadsheet in a Word document and updating the content of that Excel spreadsheet for display using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). Hence the term OLE document, that is still in use today.

OLE was part of the Microsoft COM or Component Object Model, that enabled programmers to reuse software components and services in a logical and object oriented manner. COM was extended and expanded over the years to include DCOM, the Distributed Component Object Model that allowed programmers to call OLE objects or COM objects situated on other computers or servers. COM+ was added to support transaction services using technologies such as Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and this first appeared when Windows 2000 was launched to better support distributed transactions in more complex applications, where higher performance and throughput was required. COM has gradually become a common term used to refer to: COM, DCOM, COM+, OLE and ActiveX technologies in general.

ActiveX components can be created in a variety of object oriented programming languages, but are most commonly created using C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC), such as: MFC 4.0, MFC 4.2 and MFC 6.0. When VB 5 was released in became possible for a Visual Basic programmer to create an ActiveX component for reuse by other people and whilst most programmers claim that the best ActiveX components were written in Visual C++ or by utilizing the ActiveX Template Library, it did not stop some entrepreneurial developers from Janus Systems writing one of the bestselling ActiveX UI controls of all time in VB5 and VB6, called Janus GridEx, a VB6 ActiveX, that gives the look and feel of the Microsoft Outlook UI inside your app.

ActiveX components and ActiveX controls come with a variety of file extensions such as: .exe, .dll and .ocx and these denote a certain type of usage either in-process as part of your program or app (an ActiveX DLL), or out-of-process as a standalone executable (an ActiveX Exe), as an ActiveX control or OCX control mainly used as a UI control on a form or page. Downloadable ActiveX controls are also packaged as .cab files or Cabinet files. These CAB files are packages of files compressed to take up less space and hence can be downloaded more efficiently over the Internet.

In this ActiveX Component gallery you will find a variety of commercial products that are ActiveX objects or ActiveX controls that people sometime refer to as VB controls or as a VB object, as they are often used within Visual Basic. You will find ActiveX Windows components that allow you to carry out visuals tasks, such as an ActiveX UI control for displaying video or images, an ActiveX image control or a non-Visual ActiveX upload component that will allow you to push a file up onto a server over the Internet using HTTP or FTP protocols.

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Build line-of-business and data analysis applications. ComponentOne Ultimate offers a complete set of controls for desktop, web, and native mobile development, a full year of free updates, and 24/7 online support. Ultimate includes every ComponentOne ... Read more

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Create applications with a user interface similar to Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio and other well-known products. BCGControlBar Library Professional (BCGControlBar Pro MFC) is an MFC extension library with more than 300 well designed, tested ... Read more

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Communications, security and e-business components. /n software Red Carpet Subscription includes every edition of every product /n software offer in a frequently updated subscription service. You get tools for every major communications and security ... Read more

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Give your application the ability to read, edit, and create documents in industry standard formats like MS Word DOCX, DOC, RTF, HTML and XML. TX Text Control ActiveX includes the ability to export all documents can be exported to print-ready Adobe PDF ... Read more

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A Front-end and Back-end solution suite with many advanced UI controls and data manipulation libraries. Xceed Ultimate Suite includes an essential set of 160+ flexible, reliable and high-performance controls and libraries, for all Windows platforms. UI ... Read more

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Create charts in PNG, JPEG, BMP, WBMP, PDF and GIF, viewable by virtually all browsers, including mobile and hand-held devices. ChartDirector is a professional charting component for windows and Web applications. It comes with an e xtensive chart range ... Read more

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Rapidly implement barcode recognition into your apps. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader enables you to efficiently embed barcode reading functionality in your Web and desktop applications using just a few lines of code. You can decode barcodes from various image ... Read more